Word: slaloming
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...women’s side, junior Susannah Dickerson and captain Molly Simmons repeatedly turned in finishes near each other in the slalom...
Weisel still had time to take third place in his age group in the 1982 national championship for slalom, giant slalom and downhill. But he wants to win that title too, so he often takes Fridays off and flies in his Cheyenne IIXL turboprop to Sun Valley, Idaho, for practice. To get in shape for bicycle races, he pedals his trail bike up 2,600-ft. Mount Tamalpais, near his home. Weisel has boasted that his occasional riding partners are left with "their tongues hanging out." That goes likewise for his business rivals...
...apex in a corner and accelerate out. Geared up with helmets, we head out to the skid pad, then move on to a lesson in heel-toe technique: gunning the throttle while braking and downshifting (don't try this at home). After lunch, it's on to a slalom course, racing around cones placed in a tight configuration, then an exercise called "rat race," high-speed driving in hourglass formations...
...here is a half-mile oval surrounded by wide swaths of muddy grass. Spin out, and you wind up in the weeds, which is where I find myself a couple of times. For the course's finale, we split into teams and, racing against the clock, tear through a slalom. When my turn arrives, my adrenaline is pumping so hard that I put the car in reverse (a common mistake, I'm assured). Suffice it to say, my team loses...
...women, junior Susannah Dickerson was the top Harvard finisher in both the GS and the slalom. In the slalom, Dickerson finished 54th with a time of 1:53.59, followed by sophomore Kathleen Connors in 60th...